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This aspect of the life of Muhammad has very troubling implications for those who want to maintain that Muhammad was essentially a man of peace. His record and his teaching point in exactly the opposite direction.

When studying the Qur’an and hadiths a consistent pattern emerges. Muhammad made it clear on several occasions that engaging in warfare for the sake of Allah is one of the greatest things that a Muslim can do.

Where two passages directly contradict each other, scholars invoke the ‘Law of Abrogation’ which states that a later revelation supersedes an earlier one (cf. Qur’an 2:1063). The very existence of the ‘Law of Abrogation’ is problematic since it clearly implies that Allah’s supposedly eternal word contains time-limited information that should no longer be heeded.

Was Israeli authority "genocidal," as claimed by Arab propagandists and their European allies, who today make insulting analogies between the Israelis and the Nazis? If so, it was the most ineffectual genocide in human history, for between 19 6 7 and 19 9 3 the Arab population of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip tripled, from around 9 5 0, 0 0 o to more than 3, 0 0 o, 0 0 0. New villages mushroomed throughout the West Bank with such rapidity that by 19 9 3 there were some 2 6 o new Arab towns on the map.

As early as the fall of 19 4 7, months before the UN partition plan, it was clear that there would be war no matter what course of action the UN took. In anticipation of this war, many of the well-to-do Arabs of the Western Galilee, from Haifa to Acco and villages in between, closed down theirhouses and went to Beirut or Damascus, where, with their wealth and connections, they could wait for the end of hostilities in safety. They thought that once the war was over (no one imagined that Israel could win), they would come back to their homes. Objective observers estimate that about seventy thousand...

The Arabs who stayed in Israel and became citizens of Israel (approximately i 7 0, 0 0 0 in 19 4 9, now in excess of 1, 40 0, 0 0 0) prospered. Today, Arab Israelis serve as members of parliament (the Knesset), faculty in universities, highly educated professionals in just about every field of endeavor, and enjoy a standard of living, political and personal freedom, and economic opportunity unparalleled anywhere in the Arab world.

But Arab culpability for al-Nakba goes further. Grabbing the land intended by the UN for the Arabs of Palestine, the forces of Jordan occupied the West Bank, unilaterally and illegally annexing it, while King Farouk of Egypt declared Egyptian sovereignty over the Gaza Strip. Both actions were in violation of international law, in addition to defying UN Resolutions 18 1 and 19 4. In addition to illegally occupying land that was supposed to be the Palestinian state, Jordan and Egypt and other Arab states maintained the helpless Palestinian refugees in concentration camps for future use as moral...

is worth noting the obvious-that the real cause of the refugees' flight was the Arab invasion. Had there been no war, there would have been no refugees. Moreover, had there been any Arab state willing to negotiate peace with Israel after the war, it is very likely that many, if not all, refugees could have returned to their homes in that part of Palestine which the UN had designated for the Arab state. But the Arabs refused to negotiate and refused to create this UN-mandated Arab state.